Harrison LLP

Estate Planning & Trust Administration

Partner

With more than 30 years of experience assisting clients with their estate planning (including life insurance and charitable planning), business succession and estate and trust administration, Laura has been recognized numerous times as a Top Estate Attorney in the Washingtonian magazine. Laura uses her extensive knowledge of estate and gift taxes together with her effective communication skills and personable demeanor to provide clients with an understandable, efficient and comfortable experience. Each estate plan is crafted to meet the individual needs of the client while minimizing estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes.

Laura has a particular passion for assisting clients entering new phases of their lives, whether due to marriage, divorce or death of a loved one. In addition, she enjoys working with multi-generational families to coordinate their estate plans, protect assets and counsel younger generations about the responsibility of inheriting wealth. Practice Areas Charitable Planned Giving Estate Planning estate_trust_administration; Family Business Advice Prenuptial & Postnuptial Agreements Family Office Services Tax Planning.

Estate Planning Council of Montgomery County, Past President, Board Director, and Charitable Outreach Committee

Washington, D.C. Estate Planning Council, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee Member

American Bar Association – Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law; Section of Taxation

Maryland State Bar Association – Estate and Trust Law Section

District of Columbia Bar Association – Section of Estates, Trusts and Probate Law; Taxation Section

Vanderbilt School of Law, J.D.; Dean’s List; Associate Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Brown University, B.A. in Business and Economics